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Charismatic people:
- Stir our emotions
- Make us feel good
- Effortlessly connect with others
- Are open, accessible, warm, receptive, strong and confident
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Stories
- 3 parts - the set-up, confrontation and resolution
- They should flow. Take the audience on a journey.
- Bring it to life through performance.
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Wordplay
Put the most important information at the end of sentences. It will have more impact.
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Status
- Always adopt a status of around 7 on a scale of 1-10 (where 10 is high status).
- We should never feel the need to claim status or prove ourselves.
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Vocal status
- Be cheery, relaxed and resonant (loving).
- Speak slowly with an interesting tone, harmonious pitch, timbre and volume.
- Replace filler words (like "er", "like", etc) with silence.
- Pauses are powerful.
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Emotional status
- Be caring, attentive while listening and react empathically.
- Attune our emotions to those of others.
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How do we want people to feel when they interact with us?
Hope is a powerful emotion to leave people with.
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Make the audience have a good time
- They want to enjoy themselves and feel at ease.
- They want you to be good.
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Preparation
It may take a short while to warm up. This is normal. It's just 'getting in character'.
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You are the expert
People want to know about you and your subject (even if that subject is you).
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Play the part
Embrace the artificiality of the situation and engage fully to deliver a show.
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We're all actors on a stage
Nobody's who you think they are anyway.
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Three circles of concentration
- Intra-personal - internal thinking
- The intimate - concentrating on those close-by
- The group - addressing the broader group
With focus in the third circle, we can drop into the second and first for variety provided we remain in the third too.
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We need to star in our own movie
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Great communication is all about delivery
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